Solutions for higher education and research

Transform the way your school or institution shares information with converged communications. Unify and streamline the delivery of feature-rich, integrated voice, video and data content, to offer a whole new range of e-learning, pervasive computing and wireless applications.

Are you providing students with tools for rich learning opportunities? Can you distribute materials—documents, lectures, audio and video—across your campus and with other institutions? IBM can help you take instruction to a higher level with technology to increase access to a variety of learning materials.

Security is a vital concern for colleges and universities worldwide. Our digital surveillance solution is a comprehensive security offering designed to help safeguard people and capital investments across campus. Whether you are upgrading current systems or deploying a new one, digital is the future of smart monitoring.

A digital portfolio allows access to work products for assessment and competency demonstration. The electronic portfolio solution from IBM and rSmart offers an open-source personal digital portfolio environment backed by IBM technology. Reduce costs, while maintaining technical stability with IBM and rSmart.

Drowning in documents? Paper weighing you down? A robust enterprise content management solution from IBM can help educators gain control of information. Become more efficient and responsive. From staff to students to faculty, now you can deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.

Is your institution looking to reduce costs, increase performance and recruit top faculty and students? Through our implementation services, IBM can help you automate cumbersome manual processes, including payroll and student registration, eliminate paperwork and streamline your overall ERP infrastructure.

Does your university research involve performing physics experiments at the subatomic level or analyzing the human genome? Maybe you are correlating information about astronomical phenomena or managing large databases of medical imaging files. IBM helps researchers solve complex problems using grid computing solutions.

Does your research involve complex problems that require terascale or even petascale calculations? Could your research and education experience be improved by exploiting capabilities similar to the most powerful systems on the planet? If so, turn to IBM for the highest-performance computing solutions.

Knowledge is power. That’s why schools, colleges and universities need to know what they’re up against. Viruses. Hackers. Audits. IBM Internet Security Systems™ offers the tools needed to help protect valuable IT assets and information, and support compliance efforts in a cost-effective manner.

The IBM Open Education Service: Collaborative Learning Edition is a hosted, standards-compliant, open source-based online support system for K-12 and higher education institutions. It can be accessed across classroom and institutional boundaries, enabling collaboration among educators, students and the larger community.

Security is a vital concern for educational institutions. Our Smart Surveillance Solution for education is designed to analyze video data faster and more effectively, enabling a proactive approach to campus safety. Whether upgrading current systems or deploying a new one, digital surveillance is key to smart monitoring.

Give students, faculty and staff virtually anytime, anywhere access to applications, information and resources. IBM Virtual Infrastructure Access Services provides a security-rich access environment with a connection broker to help seamlessly link Internet-ready devices with centrally managed applications.

Do you have an automated process to manage and identify users to your network? Are you concerned about viruses and worms attacking your systems? Protect the security and privacy of information while helping ensure the secure continuity of operations. IBM and Cisco can help.

Increase IT asset utilization and staff efficiency. Reduce operating costs. We can help you optimize your IT environment by simplifying and integrating systems and applications across your institution. You'll reduce complexity and gain the flexibility you need to easily deploy new applications.

Protect your institution's IT infrastructure from security threats. Meet legislative and public demand for keeping private information safe. Prevent unauthorized distribution and access to your network. We can help you manage the challenges of annual student turnover with enhanced system administration.

A collection of interconnected servers used as a single computing resource, clusters pull together enormous computing power for data-intensive projects such as studying the human genome or complex modeling. Combined with Linux™'s low cost and flexibility, IBM can deliver new capabilities and reduce research costs.

Offer innovative collaborative learning environments. Enable and enhance learning, teaching and research. Maintain technological stability and superiority. IBM and rSmart can help you leverage Sakai open source initiative technology to facilitate growth and collaboration—while keeping application costs down.

To remain competitive in higher education, universities must meet the complex challenge of providing scalable, self-service capabilities that focus on the constantly shifting needs of all student information users. Adopt an open technology framework to achieve a flexible and efficient suite of valued student services.

Replace PCs with virtual clients. Give students, faculty and staff access to a full desktop environment virtualized on secure servers in a centralized data center. Enhance the security of your technology and data. Simplify systems management across campus. Gain more flexibility and system reliability. Lower IT costs.

With most students now arriving on campus with their own cellular phones, PDAs and laptops, campus communication patterns and cost structures are changing. Let IBM help you plan and implement a roadmap for wireless that allows you to implement cost-effective technologies to meet the demand for new services.